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THE LAST TIME I had seen U.S. Olympic sprinter Bernard Williams was eight months ago when he was delivering a speech about staying in school and away from drugs to youngsters at the Union Street United Methodist Church in Westminster. Even then, almost two weeks after Williams had run the race of his life and won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, he was still receiving hate mail calling him classless, disrespectful, shallow and a "thug," a term America loves to throw on black athletes as soon as there is a hint of trouble. Those were the nice ones. In Sydney, Williams and three members of the United States' gold-medal 400-meter relay team took a...

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THE LAST TIME I had seen U.S. Olympic sprinter Bernard Williams was eight
months ago when he was delivering a speech about staying in school and away
from drugs to youngsters at the Union Street United Methodist Church in
Westminster.
Even then, almost...